Vigilio Fait (born 14 October 1962 in

Rovereto Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. History Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier ...

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) is an Italian sport shooter. Since 1997, Fait had won a total of ten medals (three golds, four silver, and three bronze) for both air and free pistol at the

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series. He also captured a silver medal in the men's 50 m pistol at the

2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships The 49th ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia from July 22, 2006, to August 5, 2006. __NOTOC__ Medal count World records A total of 15 world records were bettered or equalled during the championships. Rifle eve ...

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, accumulating a score of 662.8 points. Fait is a four-time Olympian, and a member of Revereto National Shooting Club ( it, Tiro a Segno Nazionale Rovereto) under his coach Giancarlo Tosi. Fait made his official debut for the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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, representing his nation

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. He achieved a fifth-place finish in the

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, and a seventeenth-place finish in the

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, accumulating scores of 659.8 and 578 points, respectively. Fait also competed at the

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in Sydney, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal. Twelve years after competing in his first Olympics, Fait qualified for his fourth Italian team, as a 46-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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by placing second in men's free pistol from the

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. He scored a total of 580 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Bulgarian shooter and two-time Olympic champion

Tanyu Kiryakov Tanyu Kiryakov ( bg, Таню Киряков, born 2 March 1963) is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the first shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first ...

from the final attempt, finishing only in ninth place. Three days later, Fait placed twenty-eighth in his second event,

, by one point behind North Korea's Ryu Myong-Yon from the final attempt, with a total score of 551 targets.

Olympic results

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fait, Vigilio Italian male sport shooters Living people Olympic shooters of Italy Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Rovereto 1962 births Sportspeople from Trentino